success in business

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that profile one hundred U.S. business leaders, each listing career highlights, important contributions, and key dates, with discussion of the individual's career path, and a short quotation or bit of advice. Includes photographs and titles for further reading.

Contains advice for achieving success in a professional career after graduating from colleges, including tips on work skills, communication, leadership, social skills, self-discipline, and attitude.

The company that is now Google began as a partnership of ideas between two Stanford University graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. This perceptive book includes sidebars on the company's innovations, a biographical fact sheet on Brin, Page, and Eric Schmidt, CEO.

Describes various companies that succeeded despite initial rejection and the certainty of "experts" that the product they offered would fail.

Presents brief biographies of individuals who improved, refined, and perfected various products and processes, from cameras to razors.

Recounts the success stories of entrepreneurs who were able to found profitable companies or make lucrative developments through a combination of imagination and luck.

Explores the concept of money and illustrates several ways to earn money.